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CORBIN v. U.S.

No. 13-CF-410.

120 A.3d 588 (2015)

James A. CORBIN, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided July 23, 2015.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Daniel Gonen , Public Defender Service, with whom James Klein and Alice Wang , Public Defender Service, were on the brief, for appellant.

Stephen F. Rickard , Assistant United States Attorney, with whom Ronald C. Machen Jr. , United States Attorney at the time the brief was filed, and Elizabeth Trosman , Suzanne Grealy Curt , Erik Kenerson , and Peter Lallas , Assistant United States Attorneys, were on the brief, for appellee.

Before BLACKBURNE-RIGSBY and BECKWITH, Associate Judges, and BELSON, Senior Judge.

The central issue on appeal is one of statutory construction, namely, whether the District of Columbia's carjacking statute, D.C.Code § 22-2803 (2001), encompasses attempted unarmed carjacking. We conclude that it does not, and that the government must charge a suspect of attempted unarmed carjacking under...

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